Ignorance and deceit

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who was formerly a lawyer and a federal prosecutor who targeted Whites, and his Correctional Affairs Counsel, Joe West, both claimed that if another state asked for an Arkansas citizen to be extradited, they had no choice but to accede to that demand. That was why, allegedly, the governor refused Jacob Goodwin’s family’s plea that he meet with them, and ignored the petition signed by hundreds of concerned citizens that he delay or stipulate the extradition request of Jacob to Virginia. In a letter Hutchinson wrote to Jacob Goodwin’s mother, received on the day Jacob was extradited, he claimed that neither the merits of the case, nor claims that the person sought for arrest would not receive a fair trial in the pursuant state, mattered a whit.

That’s bullshit. Asa Hutchinson is either a liar or stupid. Or both. Joe West knows better, too, and his…